| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 創新設計研究所 === 100 === The human’s perception of the five senses is gradually ignored in the current digital world. People are used to see the colorful world with their eyes and listen to the sweet music with their ears. However, people seldom use their noses to experience the odor around them. Since Ackerman (1993) emphasizes that the olfaction experience is more impressive than the experiences of vision and hearing, will the adoption of scents as stimuli be beneficial to the design concept development?
This study employs design students as the research subjects and two design task experiments are conducted. The difference between the two design task experiments is that the scent of sandalwood is used as the scent stimulus in one of the design task experiment. The data collected through the “olfaction perception questionnaire,” and design concept sketches and deign development interviews through the design task experiments are analyzed to see the influences of scent stimulus on deign concept development. The differences of deign concepts and design processes are further compared.
The study results indicate that (1) the amount of design concept sketches is comparable between the two design tasks, (2) the design theme is mainly in the category of “material” and “scent feature” in the scent stimulus deign task, and “uses” and “utility” in the regular design task, (3) for the creativity, the original design and usefulness of the regular design task is better than scent stimulus deign task.
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